Section: US & Canada
EU extends $1.2 billion loan to Ukraine
The European Union’s foreign policy chief says the EU will extend a 1 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) loan to struggling Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Putin says he approved plan to shoot down plane in 2014
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in a new documentary that he approved of a plan to shoot down a hijacked passenger jet four years ago. A Ukrainian man tried to hijack a Turkey-bound flight and demanded that it go to Sochi as the Winter Olympics were about to start there in February 2014. The Sochi Games were Putin’s...
Putin To Visit Crimea At End Of Election Campaign
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit Crimea on March 14, the last day of his presidential election campaign, in order to attend events linked to the fourth anniversary of the widely rejected referendum Russia staged when it annexed the region from Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU extends $1.2 billion loan to Ukraine
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Putin boasts of ordering a passenger plane shot down in a bid for re-election
Vladimir Putin boasted Monday of ordering a passenger plane carrying 110 souls shot from the sky, part of the Russian autocrat’s push for re-election. The startling revelation comes just a week before the March 18 vote, one that is expected to see secure Putin his third term as president. In the two-hour documentary entitled “Putin,” the...
EU’s Mogherini Says Ukraine Must to More to Fight Corruption
KIEV (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday Ukraine must do more to fight corruption and establish… …read more Source: U.S....
Putin says he approved plan to shoot down plane in 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he approved of a plan to shoot down a hijacked passenger jet in 2014. A Ukrainian man tried to hijack a Turkey-bound flight and demand … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
EU Extends Sanctions Against Russians, Pro-Russia Ukrainian Separatists
The European Union on 12 March officially prolonged its asset freezes and visa bans against 150 Russian officials and Russia-backed Ukrainian separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
One Ukrainian Soldier Killed, Three Wounded In Country’s East
Ukraine says one of its soldiers has been killed and three wounded in clashes in the country’s east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
What Gorbachev Did Not Hear
On December 12, 2017, The National Security Archive published a study entitled “NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard,” drawing from declassified Western and Soviet documents to argue that, in the waning days of the Cold War, senior Western leaders gave their Soviet counterparts explicit assurances—on which the West later reneged—that NATO would...
